Improvement in tube-wells



' To all whom it may concern.'

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SAMUEL S. AYERS, OF PLAIN FIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG'NOR TO HIMSELF AND ABRAM SEBRING OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 105,882, dated August 2,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TUBE-WELLS.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making'pert oi the same.

-Beit known that I, SAMUEL S. Armes, of Plainfield, in 'the county 0fv Union and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in TubeVVells;`and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description-thereof, which will enablel others skilled inthe art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing formingpart of this specification.

Figure 1 is a detail sectional view of my improved tube-well, furnished with a drill point.

Figure 2 is a detail side view of the lower part o f the tube, furnished with an ordinary point.

My invention has for its object to furnish animproved drive-well, which shall beV so constructed and arranged as to up with sand or gravel, and which will enable the tube to force its way through slaty rocks or soils; and

It consists in the construction and combination of the various parts as hereinafter more fully described.

'A is the whey/the lower part of which is perforated with numerous long and `narrow slots, as shown in figs. l and 2. This mannerof perforating the tube A renders the application of screens to the lower part `of said tube wholly unnecessary, and prevents the `perforations from becoming choked up with sand or gravel, as is the case with tubes otherwise perforated, causing the well to dry up.

Insome sections of country, where tube-wells are used, the tube, when being sunk, encounters a slaty rock, which the tube, when furnished with the ordinary point B, cannot penetrate.

Toenable the tube A to force its way through 'such rocks, I furnish its lower endwith a drill-point`, O, asl l as shown in fig. 1.

The upper endl of the tube A enters and projects into the sand-receiver D, which is securely attached to the upper part of said tube.

In the upper end of the' tube A is placed a checkvalve, E, which is kept in place upon the yupper end of said tube by one or more stems extending downward into said tube. 'i A v F is a bar extendingacross the receiver D, at such a distance above the upper end of the tube A that prevent the well from' being chokedA brought up by the water through the tube Afrom passing into the uppgpart of the receiver D and entering the tube Hfto which the pump is attached.

The lower end of the tube H extends downward nearly to the screen G, so that the upper part of the receiver D may serve as an air-chamber iu raising the Water.

.By this construction and arrangement of the various parts of the tube-well, when sand is raised witli Ithe water through the tube A, it strikes the valve E, and

is deflected so as to fall into the lower part of the receiver I), instead of falling back into the tube, the screen G guardingagainst any of itv passing int-o the tube H, and passing out with the water, or injuring the valves of the pump.

In the lower part or bottom of the receiverD is formed an opening, lclosed with a screw-plug, I, or

other stopper, so that, by removing the said plug, the

sand may at any time bc conveniently drawn ofi' from the said receiver.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The combination .and arrangement of the tube A, perforated in its lower part with long and narrow slots,

sand-receiver D, valve E, guard-bar F,screen G, and

pump-tube H, with each other, substantially in thc manner herein set forth and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me .this l3th`day of August, 1869.

SAMUEL S. AYERS. Witnesses i ABRAM SEBRING, JAMES T. Germain. 

